Fountain Grains & Greens
Restaurant · East Hollywood ·
Farm-driven grain bowls and salads with fresh local produce
Farm-driven grain bowls and salads with fresh local produce
"A tight, mostly takeout operation with an ordering window across from the looming East Hollywood Scientology building, this farmers market–driven spot stands out by channeling chef Aric Attebery’s relationships with local farmers into salads and grain bowls built around produce that truly tastes straight from the market, plus nutty Lopes Family Farms brown rice. Beyond the bowls, there’s long-simmered bone broth, slices of seeded sourdough, and ice-cold Topo Chico. The popular kimchi rice bowl comes crowned with a soft-boiled egg split to reveal its bright orange yolk, with salad greens tossed with fresh herbs and miniature pepino melons, slices of tender chicken thigh, and well‑fermented housemade kimchi that rotates with the produce (like a Weiser farms melon kimchi). The avocado toast in a bowl sets half a perfectly ripe avocado into Coleman Farm greens with a generous scatter of roughly torn Bub & Grandma’s seeded sourdough croutons, all threaded together by an earthy za’atar dressing that coats everything with sesame seeds and sumac. For something sweet, the yogurt and granola pairs a shallow pool of creamy homemade yogurt with honey, spiced nut granola, and a not‑too‑sweet fruit jam made from whatever’s best at the market that week. Most bowls are vegan, and any of them can be customized with a protein like hanger steak, chicken breast, or a soft‑boiled egg." - Rebecca Roland
"Sourcing your weekly nutrients at a farmers market is a lot of work, but Fountain Grains & Greens offers more or less the same sensation at a fairly reasonable price. This small takeout-focused spot in East Hollywood is a great option to get a fast vegetable fix, with its compact menu of grain bowls and salads made with local produce and meats. If you’re not in a rush, there’s a handful of sidewalk tables where you can lunch on their crisp cobb salad with jammy eggs, an “avocado toast” salad tossed in za’atar vinaigrette, and kimchi rice bowls dusted with chicken skin furikake for crunch." - sylvio martins, brant cox
"Your Order: Avocado Toast In A Bowl We know this salad from things-in-a-bowl specialist Fountain Grains & Greens sounds like a gimmicky special you’d see at brunch, but hear us out, especially if you appreciate big crackly sourdough croutons as much as leafy greens. Frisee and butter lettuce are massaged with a zippy za’atar vinaigrette that, combined with pickled onions and the chewy chunks of toasted bread, tastes like a vinegar-doused sub. The half avocado thickens the dressing nicely, and you can add a soft-boiled egg on top if you’re trying to hit your protein goal for the day." - brant cox, cathy park, sylvio martins, arden shore
"We love that Fountain Grains & Greens keeps its menu short and seasonal. This casual counter-service spot in East Hollywood excels at exactly what its name suggests: bright, fresh grain bowls and salads made with local produce and proteins. So if you want your lunch order to sound like it came from a Flamingo Estate newsletter, look no further. In roughly ten minutes, you can get a crisp cobb salad with jammy eggs and tangy buttermilk dressing, housemade corn “lemonade,” or a kimchi rice bowl showered with chicken skin furikake for crunch. Street parking can be tricky, so ordering ahead of time is the move for a quick grab-and-go meal. Or you can eat your fancy salad on one of the sidewalk tables and marvel at the ominous Scientology building across the street. Food Rundown Kimchi Rice Bowl Our rice cooker has never made brown rice this soft. This filling bowl isn’t as punchy as its name suggests (it’s light on kimchi), but there’s a subtle sweetness to the garlic caramel that complements the grilled chicken and salty chicken skin furikake on top. photo credit: Sylvio Martins Fountain Cobb This is a picture-perfect cobb salad that tastes great, too. The thick wedges of little gem lettuce act as little boats for nuggets of crispy lardons, blue cheese, and avocado. The tangy buttermilk dressing is on the runnier side, but the jammy eggs thicken it once everything is mixed. photo credit: Sylvio Martins Avocado Toast In A Bowl Along with the half-avocado planted in the middle of this silly-named salad, we love its combination of frisee and butter lettuce, giant chewy sourdough croutons, pickled onions, and tangy za’atar dressing, which tastes like eating a delicious vinegar-doused hoagie, only a lot lighter. photo credit: Sylvio Martins Crispy Rice Salad If you enjoy crunchy things and salad dressings on the sweeter side, you’ll be into this. The fresh fruit on top periodically changes—one day it might be strawberries, the next mandarins—and complements the lemony yogurt and fruity sake kasu vinaigrette mixed in. The crispy puffed grains add a nice texture, but the large leaves of lettuce and fruit chunks make it hard to all capture in one mouthful. photo credit: Sylvio Martins" - Sylvio Martins
"Opening October 21 in East Hollywood, Chef Aric Attebery (Bouchon Bistro, Blue Hill at Stone Barns, Otium) is launching a casual counter-serve restaurant in partnership with Backyard Hospitality that centers on farm-driven salads and grain bowls. The menu highlights a market rice bowl with Lopes Family Farms brown rice and Coleman Farms greens, a kimchi grain bowl with Weiser melon kimchi, a grilled steak bowl, and seasonal sides like blistered wax beans. Fountain Grains & Greens will focus on sourcing produce directly from local farmers — in addition to Lopes and Weister, it will work with Kandarian Organic Farm, Fat Uncle Farms, and Tehachapi Grain Projects — and in the months after opening plans to introduce a market component selling pickles, jams, local produce, and more." - Rebecca Roland